Land Acquisition Act (consolidated to 10-5-02)
39.
Powers of Derelict Land Board.
PART VII
PROVISIONS RELATING TO DERELICT LAND
40. Appointment of Chief Land Officer and other land officers.
41. Reports on derelict land.
42. Inquiry by Derelict Land Board and declaration of derelict land.
43. Eviction of persons and registration of land.
44. Compensation not to be paid for derelict land.
PART VIII
SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
45. Composition of Administrative Court for purposes of this Act.
46. Costs.
PART IX
GENERAL
47. Regulations.
48. Designated valuation officers.
49. References to Compensation Court in other enactments and documents.
50. Amendment of Schedule.
SCHEDULE: Principles Regarding Assessment of Compensation.
AN ACT to empower the President and other authorities to acquire land and other immovable property
compulsorily in certain circumstances; to make special provision for the compensation payable for agricultural
land required for resettlement purposes; to provide for the establishment of the Derelict Land Board; to provide
for the declaration and acquisition of derelict land; and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the
foregoing.
[Long title amended by s. 22 of Act 15/2000.]
[Date of commencement: 8th May, 1992.]
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Land Acquisition Act [Chapter 20:10].
2
Interpretation
In this Act—
“acquiring authority” means—
(a) the President, or any Minister duly authorised by the President, acting in terms of subsection (1)
or (2) of section 3; or
(b) the President or any person acting in terms of section 4; or
(c) the person empowered or required by any enactment to acquire land, take materials from land or
pay compensation therefor, where the enactment applies any provision of this Act to such
acquisition, taking of materials or payment of compensation; or
(d) in relation to anything required or permitted to be done by an acquiring authority in terms of this
Act or an enactment referred to in paragraph (c), including the capacity to institute proceedings in
terms of this Act and to sue and be sued either in his own official capacity or in the name of the
acquiring authority, any person duly authorised by the acquiring authority for that purpose;
[Definition substituted by s. 2 of Act 14/2001.]
“agricultural land required for resettlement purposes” means any rural land the acquisition of which is
reasonably necessary for resettlement purposes and which is identified in a preliminary notice as
being required for such purposes;
[Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 15/2000.]
“agricultural purposes” includes forestry, fruit-growing and animal husbandry, including the keeping of
poultry, bees or fish;
“Chief Land Officer” means the Chief Land Officer referred to in section 40;
“Compensation Committee” means the Compensation Committee established by section 20nine A;
[Definition amended by s. 2 of Act 15/2000.]
“Derelict Land Board” means the Derelict Land Board established by section 30;
“designated rural land” [Definition repealed by s. 2 of Act 15/2000.]
“designated valuation officer” means a person who is designated as a valuation officer in terms of
subsection (1) of section 48;
[Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 15/2000.]
“fair compensation”, in relation to the acquisition of agricultural land required for resettlement purposes,
means compensation fixed by the Compensation Committee in accordance with the provisions of
section 29C;
[Definition substituted by s. 2 of Act 15/2000.]
“improvements”, in relation to agricultural land required for resettlement purposes, means any of the
improvements prescribed in Part I of the Schedule;
[Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 15/2000.]
“land” includes—
(a) anything permanently attached to or growing on land; and
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